2013年三月30日托福写作考题解析.docVIP

2013年3月30日托福写作考题解析 　　综合写作：持续更新中！ 　　独立写作题目：Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?? Despite the fact that many countries say they care about environmental problems, the environmental situation will not improve significantly in the future.重复2012.3.23NA 　　范文： 　　These days, countries are much more willing to acknowledge environmental issues than they were in the past.? Part of the reason is that many environmental problems have reached a point where they cant be easily hidden or ignored anymore.? More promisingly, I think countries are also beginning to recognize that alleviating environmental problems is in their best economic interest in the long-term.? For those reasons, Im willing to bet that the environmental situation will gradually improve as we keep moving forward. 　　Firstly, countries have been facing mounting pressure to be more environmentally conscious from not only their own citizens, but also other countries as well.? With the global village being as connected as it is today, and with citizens being generally more diligent and aware, it is now very difficult to get away with the kind of gross negligence towards the environment that would have been easy to hide twenty or thirty years ago.? For example, if factories are dumping chemicals in local rivers and streams, there are now plenty of nongovernmental organizations to catch them.? On the international level, there are treaties such as the Kyoto Protocol that seek to reign in the greenhouse gas emissions of various countries. 　　Secondly, it is becoming apparent that long-term environmental damage also leads to long-term economic losses.? An organization in China, for example, published that in 2008 over one trillion RMB was lost due to land degradation and ecological damage costs—at the time, that was almost 4 percent of Chinas GDP.? Factoring the potential long-term costs of environmental recovery, the costs are even higher. Damage to forests, for instance, does not just mean the short-ter